Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #120 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Boxing

Boxing trivia questions and answers.

1. What boxing class is heaviest - flyweight, bantam weight or
   feather weight?
    
2. What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of
   the Four-Rounders?
    
3. Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight
   hyped as " One for the Ages"?
    
4. What boxer made his first title defense in 21 years, in 1995?
    
5. Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted "like a hog wants slop"?
    
6. What percentage of Mike Tyson's 1995 earnings came from
   endorsements?
    
7. What boxer answers to the nickname "Sweet Pea"?
    
8. What heavyweight champion was nicknamed "Real Deal"?
    
9. Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing
   match that lasted 89 seconds?
    
10. How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest
    heavyweight champ in history?
     
11. What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent
    chance of suffering brain damage?
     
12. What boxing weight class is limited to 190 pounds?
     
13. What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little
    known Frankie Randall?
     
14. What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan
    beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in 1889?
     
15. Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by
    his Muslim name?
     
16. What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Ali's last as heavyweight
    champ?
     
17. What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false
    insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
     
18. What boxer successfully defended his title against George
    Foreman and Larry Holmes?
     
19. Who reigned as heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from
    1951-1960?
     
20. What did boxer Nelson Azumah change his name to?
     
21. What boxing promoter's favorite expression is "Only in
    America"?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 120 - Boxing Trivia.

1. Feather weight.
2. Butter Bean.
3. George Foreman.
4. George Foreman.
5. Muhammad Ali.
6. Zero.
7. Pernell Whitaker
8. Evander Holyfield
9. Mike Tyson.
10. Forty-five. 
11. Boxing. 
12. Cruiserweight. 
13. Julio Cesar Chavez.
14. A knockdown.
15. Howard Cosell.
16. 1979.
17. Don King.
18. Evander Holyfield.
19. Idi Amin.
20. Azumah Nelson. 
21. Don King's. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #119 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Golf

Golf trivia questions and answers.

1. What two golfers led the PGA in earnings three seasons each in
   the 1960s?
    
2. What's a scratch golfer's handicap?
    
3. What's a golfer said to have if he is entitled to tee off
   first?
    
4. What comic actor scored huge sales with his Bad Golf Made
   Easy instructional videos?
    
5. What Grand Slam golf tournament has the most club housers
   sipping mint juleps?
    
6. Who's second to Sam Snead in PGA Tour wins?
    
7. What tournament did Arnold Palmer say he would play in as long
   as he could walk?
    
8. Who won a record six PGA Player of the Year Awards-Jack
   Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer or Tom Watson?
    
9. Who summed up a playoff loss to Jack Nicklaus at the
   1991 U. S. Senior Open with "the Bear crushed the Mouse"?
    
10. What golfer bid a tearful farewell to fans after playing his
    last U.S. Open, in 1994?
     
11. Who became the youngest and oldest player to win the
    Masters, in 1963 and 1986?
     
12. What golfer's worst finish at the British Open from 1966
    to 1980 was sixth?
     
13. What's the only Grand Slam event Lee Trevino never won?
     
14. Who was the first Swedish golfer to win the U.S. Women's Open
    two straight times?
     
15. Who's the most successful Zimbabwean golfer of all time?
     
16. How many rounds must a golfer have have played to be eligible
    for a handicap?
     
17. What female golfer's high school nickname was "Taco"?
     
18. Who was the first golfer since Jack Nicklaus to win eight PGA
    events his first six years on tour?
     
19. What did John Daly number the new iron he began teeing off
    with in 1996, because it had virtually no loft?
     
20. What golfer hit Ben Crenshaw in the head with his putter in
    1986, forcing Crenshaw to head for the hospital?
     
21. What Japanese golfer is the only player to have won events on
    the PGA tour, Senior Tour, Japanese, European, and Australian Tours?
     
22. What golfer won nine tournaments during her 1978 rookie
    year on the LPGA Tour?
     
23. What golfer ended nine years of final-round frustration
    by winning the 1996 Memorial Tournament?
     
24. What golfer had played 87 straight Grand Slam tournaments
    until a shoulder injury forded him to miss the 1996 British Open?
     
25. Who followed his first winless season by winning the U.S. Open
    and PGA Championship in 1980?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 119 - Golf Trivia.

1. Jack Nicklaus and  Arnold Palmer.
2. Zero.
3. The Honor.
4. Leslie Nielsen.
5. The Masters.
6. Jack Nicklaus
7. The Masters.
8. Tom Watson.
9. Chi Chi Rodriguez.
10. Arnold Palmer. 
11. Jack Nicklaus. 
12. Jack Nicklaus. 
13. The Masters. 
14. Annika Sorenstam.
15. Nick Price.
16. Ten.
17. Nancy Lopez's.
18. Phil Mickelson.
19. Zero.
20. Ben Crenshaw. 
21. Isao Aoki  .
22. Nancy Lopez. 
23. Tom Watson. 
24. Tom Watson.
25. Jack Nicklaus.   

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #118 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Football

Free NFL football trivia questions with answers.

1. What Native American language was Super Bowl XXX the first to be
   broadcast in?
    
2. What Cowboy's 99-yard run from scrimmage put him in the NFL
   football record book in 1983?
    
3. What team hired the NFL's first professional cheerleading squad,
   in 1972?
    
4. Who was the first athlete to rap at a Pro Bowl musical gala, in
   1995?
    
5. How many of the five Dallas teams Tom Landry took to Super Bowls
   were victorious?
    
6. What teams played in the first all-California Super Bowl?
    
7. What team has been drubbed in Super Bowls by scores of 27-10,
   39-20, 42-10, and 55-10?
    
8. What NFL team introduced the no-huddle offense during the 1980s?
    
9. What quarterback got stuck with the given names Yelberton
   Abraham?
    
10. What Baltimore Colts great led the NFL in passing in the 1960s,
    with 26548 yards?
     
11. What Pittsburgh Steelers great was the first wide receiver to be
    named super Bowl MVP?
     
12. What Division 1-A football team's fans cheer for the Yellow
    Jackets?
     
13. What Jets quarterback, asked if he preferred grass or Astroturf,
    replied: "I don't know, I never smoked Astroturf"?
     
14. What NFL team once had Bob Hope, Henry Mancini, Maureen Reagan
    and Danny Thomas on its advisory board?
     
15. What did a Buffalo fan hit Chuck Foreman in the eye with during a
    game, ending his chance of winning the NFC rushing title in 1975?
     
16. Who was involved as a player or coach in three Super Bowls with
    the Cowboys, two with the Eagles and one with the Bears?
     
17. How many football teams play in the Big Ten Conference?
     
18. What Vikings quarterback has been called the NFL's "original
    scrambler"?
     
19. What nickname did NFL great Lance Alworth share with a Disney
    movie title character?
     
20. How many years must a player be retired to be eligible for the
    Pro Football Hall of Fame?
     
21. What was Miami quarterback Bob Griese the first NFL football
    player to wear in a game, in 1977?
     
22. What pro football franchise did Tim Mara buy in 1925 for $500?
     
23. Who had the most rushing yards in the NFL for the 1980s?
     
24. What record-setting quarterback was the NFL's 82nd draft pick in
    1979?
     
25. What elusive Detroit running back has been dubbed "the Lion
    King"?
     
26. Who did the New York Giants beat by a point in the closest Super
    Bowl ever?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 118 - Football
Trivia.

1. Navajo.
2. Tony Dorsett's.
3. The Dallas Cowboys.
4. Deion Sanders.
5. Two.
6. The San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers.
7. The Denver Broncos.
8. The Cincinnati Bengal's.
9. Y.A. Tittle.
10. Johnny Unitas. 
11. Lynn Swan. 
12. Georgia Tech's. 
13. Joe Namath. 
14. The Los Angeles Rams.
15. A snowball.
16. Mike Ditka.
17. Eleven.
18. Fran Tarkenton.
19. Bambi.
20. Five. 
21. Glasses. 
22. The New York Giants. 
23. Eric Dickerson. 
24. Joe Montana.
25. Barry Sanders. 
26. The Buffalo Bills. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #117 - Trivia Quiz Questions About Football

Fun Football trivia quiz questions with answers.

1. What Native American was the NFL's first president?
    
2. What color flags did NFL officials begin throwing after
   abandoning white ones in 1965?
    
3. What NFL footballer is one of Brigham Young's many
   great-great-great grandsons?
    
4. How many football teams from the troubled Southwest
   Conference defected to the Big Eight?
    
5. What Chicago Bears great ran six kickoffs back for touchdowns
   over seven seasons?
    
6. Who threw a record six touchdown passes in one Super Bowl, in
   1995?
    
7. Who became the NFL's all-time touchdown leader in 1994?
    
8. What football defensive position is dubbed a "rover" or
   "monster"?
    
9. What letter begins the moniker of the most AFC football
   teams?
    
10. What position was played by NFL footballers Alan, Joaquin,
    Luis, Max and Tony Zedejas?
     
11. What NFL team was second to the 49ers in wins during the
    1980s?
     
12. What NFL team was the first to win the Vince Lombardi
    trophy five times?
     
13. What NFL team won the most games in the 1960s?
     
14. Who was the second head coach in the history of the Dallas
    Cowboys?
     
15. What Buffalo star rushed for 13,19, and 37 yards in Super
    Bowls XXVI, XXVII and XXVIII?
     
16. What Dallas Cowboys running back was dubbed "Little Big Man"?
     
17. What footballer, after running 64 yards in the wrong
    direction, was re-oriented by teammate Benny Lom?
     
18. What Chicago Bears Coach learned you could break your hand by
    putting a fist through a metal locker?
     
19. What team was led to Super Bowls VII, and VIII by their
    "no-name defense"?
     
20. What Division 1-A coach took teams to a record 29 bowl games?
     
21. What quarterback spent 46 days in 1996 at the Menninger Clinic
    to kick an addiction to the pain killer Vicodin?
     
22. What West Coast NFL team still sports the motto:
    "Commitment to Excellence"?
     
23. What Dallas star was the NFL's tallest player during the
    1980s, at six-foot-nine?
     
24. What did Dolphins receiver Mark Duper legally change his name
    to in 1985?
     
25. What Big Eight football team's fans cheer for the Cyclones?
     
26. What NFL team won the most games in the 1970s?
     
27. How many Super Bowl MVP awards does Terry Bradshaw have? 
    
     
28. What city was known to NFL fans as Titletown, USA in the
    1960s?
     
29. What future NFL quarterback wore sunglasses for his 1977 Utah
    high school yearbook photo?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 117 - Football
Trivia.

1. Jim Thorpe.
2. Gold.
3. Steve Young.
4. Four.
5. Gale Sayers.
6. Steve Young.
7. Jerry Rice
8. Safety.
9. B
10. Kicker.
11. The Washington Redskins. 
12. The San Francisco 49ers. 
13. The Green Bay Packers. 
14. Jimmy Johnson.
15. Thurman Thomas.
16. Tony Dorsett.
17. Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels.
18. Mike Ditka.
19. The Miami Dolphins.
20. Bear Bryant 
21. Brett Farve.
22. The Oakland Raiders. 
23. Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
24. Mark Super Duper.
25. Iowa State's 
26. The Dallas Cowboys.
27. Two.
28. Green Bay.
29. Jim McMahon.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #116 Trivia Quiz About Football

Fun Football trivia quiz questions with answers.

1. What Steelers quarterback, according to Hollywood Henderson,
   "couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'A' "?
    
2. What Ivy League football team once lost an NCAA record 44
   straight games?
    
3. What yard line must a football team drive to, to reach the
   "red zone"?
    
4. What budding politician led the AFL in passing yards for the
   1960s?
    
5. What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340
   pounds in 1988?
    
6. Who played defensive back for the New York Giants before he
   coached the Cowboys?
    
7. What football league had expansion teams in Baltimore,
   Las Vegas and Shreveport for the 1994 season?
    
8. How many points was a touchdown worth in 1911?
    
9. What university's football team played in the first
   seven Holiday Bowls?
    
10. What NFL team did Rafael Septien boot balls for from
    1978 to 1986?
     
11. What National Football Conference division do the Lions,
    Bears and Packers play in?
     
12. What Dallas quarterback fumbled a record five times in
    four Super Bowl games?
     
13. Whose NFL playing career began in 1949 and ended in 1975?
     
14. Who said life's three important things were "family, religion
    and the Green Bay Packers"?
     
15. What sportscaster posted an NFL coaching record of 103-22-7?
     
16. What "winning" slogan credited to Vince Lombardi was uttered
    first by UCLA coach Red Sanders?"
     
17. What three NFL teams had lost four Super Bowls each,
    through 1996?
     
18. What former Chicago Bears star was known as "the Enforcer,"
    "the Animal" and "Paddles"?
     
19. What were NFL players required to wear in games for the first
    time in 1943?
     
20. How many teams graced the NFL after the AFL officially joined
    the told in 1970?
     
21. What NFL footballer saw his weight reach a league-leading 340
    pounds in 1988?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 116 - Football Trivia.

1. Terry Bradshaw.
2. Columbia.
3. The twenty.
4. Jack Kemp.
5. William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
6. Tom Landry.
7. The Canadian Football League
8. Five.
9. Brigham Young's.
10. The Dallas Cowboys.
11. The Central Division 
12. Roger Staubach. 
13. George Blanda's. 
14. Vince Lombardi.
15. John Madden.
16. Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing
17. Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, Minnesota Vikings.
18. Dick Butkus.
19. Helmets.
20. Twenty-six. 
21. William "The Refrigerator" Perry. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #115 Trivia Quiz About Basketball

Fun basketball trivia quiz questions with answers.

1. What hoopster scored in double figures in 787 straight games,
   from December 4, 1977 to December 4, 1987?
    
2. What NBA team retired jersey numbers 3, 33, 32, and 35 in the
   1990s?
    
3. What NBA team plays home games in an arena located at Two
   Pennsylvania Plaza?
    
4. What NBA hoopster averaged an amazing 48.5 minutes per game,
   including overtime, in the 1961-62 season?
    
5. What NBA hoopster is known as "The Worm"?
    
6. What NBA star retired for the third time on May 14, 1996?
    
7. How many rules did James Naismith originally write to define
   basketball --13, 33, or 53?
    
8. Who led the NBA in hair colors in 1995?
    
9. What seven-foot-one NBA center's first name translates
   as "little one"?
    
10. What do you have to be in the NBA to win the Eddie Gottlieb
    Trophy?
     
11. Whose all-time NBA assists record was broken by John
    Stockton in 1995?
     
12. What basketball team had drubbed the New Jersey Reds
    2,495 times straight before losing to them 100-99 in 1971?
     
13. What city decided to call its new NBA team the Grizzlies,
    after much debate?
     
14. Whose 1996 return to the NBA earned him simultaneous Time,
    Newsweek, U.S. News and Sports Illustrated covers?
     
15. What Celtics star of the 1980s did the Boston Globe say looked
    like Herman Munster?
     
16. What was the first NBA team to win 70 games or more in the
    regular season?
     
17. Who holds the NBA scoring mark for a single half, with
    59 points?
     
18. What nickname did NBA star Karl Malone earn for his ability to
    deliver in the clutch?
     
19. How many NBA titles did Magic Johnson help the Lakers win as a
    player?
     
20. What former L.A. Lakers guard became the team's general
    manger?
     
21. What hoopsters did major league pitches Bob Gibson and
    Ferguson Jenkins once play for?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 115 - Basketball Trivia.  

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
2. The Boston Celtics.
3. The New York Knicks.
4. Wilt Chamberlin.
5. Dennis Rodman.
6. Magic Johnson.
7. Thirteen.
8. Dennis Rodman.
9. Shaquille O'Neal's.
10. Rookie of the year.
11. Magic Johnson's. 
12. The Harlem Globetrotters. 
13. Vancouver. 
14. Magic Johnson.
15. Kevin McHale.
16. The Chicago Bulls.
17. Wilt Chamberlin.
18. The Mailman.
19. Five.
20. Jerry West. 
21. The Harlem Globetrotters. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #114 Trivia Quiz About Basketball

Free basketball trivia questions with answers.

1. What Indiana Pacer did Knicks fan Spike Lee anger during the
   1994 playoffs by calling him "Cheryl"?
    
2. What franchise has played in the most NBA finals since 1947?
    
3. What two NBA players won the MVP trophy three times each from
   1986 through 1992?
    
4. What player did the Boston Celtics draft between won-lost
   seasons of 29-53 and 61-21?
    
5. What Baltic country did Portland Trail Blazer Arvydas Sabonis
   play for at the 1996 Olympics?
    
6. What NBA team became the first to defeat the Boston Celtics in
   12 straight games, in 1995?
    
7. Who was the first hoopster to win eight NBA scoring titles?
    
8. What NBA team is know in China as "the Red Oxen"?
    
9. Who was the last Boston Celtics coach to lead the team
   to two straight NBA titles?
    
10. What two NBA stars did Forbes list as the highest paid
    athletes for 1994?
     
11. What NBA coach got cosmic by penning the Zen book Sacred
    Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior?
     
12. Who earned $32 million of his $36 million 1993 earnings
    from endorsements?
     
13. What 20th-century decade saw the NBA adopt the 24-second shot
    clock?
     
14. What 1960 rookie bested the league's "triple double" record of
    two during his first week in the NBA?
     
15. What seven-foot-two Chicago Bulls hoopster was the first
    Australian to lay in the NBA?
     
16. What future NBA star was dubbed "Boy Gorge" when his weight
    passed 300 pounds in college?
     
17. What Lakers coach had been an 11th-round pick in the
    1967 NFL draft?
     
18. What NBA team plays home games at a facility nicknamed "The O-rena"?
     
19. Who became the NBA's winningest coach ever on January 6, 1995?
     
20. Who netted an NBA record 72.7 field goal percentage in the
    1972-73 season?
     
21. What sports team got its name because its owners wanted to
    "set the pace" in the NBA?
     
22. What NBA star attempted a record 28,307 field goals in
    regular season games?
     
23. What NBA team started out in 1948 as the Tri-Cities
    Blackhawks?
     
24. What NBA team failed to make the playoffs in 1994 for the
    first time since 1976?
     
25. What basketball team was the first in major league sports to
    be named for an insect?
     
26. What L.A. Lakers great might have played for Chicago if the
    Bulls had called "tails" in a 1979 NBA coin toss?
     
27. What Chicago Bulls coach has checked into hotels under the
    pseudonym "Mr. Red Cloud"?
     
28. What NBA team is named after a car part?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 114 - Basketball
Trivia.

1. Reggie Miller.
2. The Lakers.
3. Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.
4. Larry Bird.
5. Lithuania.
6. The New York Knicks.
7. Michael Jordan.
8. The Chicago Bulls.
9. Bill Russell.
10. Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal 
11. Phil Jackson 
12. Michael Jordan. 
13. The 1950s. 
14. Oscar Robertson.
15. Lue Longley
16. Charles Barkley.
17. Pat Riley.
18. The Orlando Magic
19. Lenny Wilkins
20. Wilt Chamberlain. 
21. The Indiana Pacers. 
22. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
23. The Atlanta Hawks. 
24. The Los Angeles Lakers.
25. The Charlotte Hornets. 
26. Magic Johnson 
27. Phil Jackson.
28. The Detroit Pistons.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #113 Trivia Quiz About Baseball

Baseball trivia quiz questions with answers.

1. What slugger did Boston name its third harbor tunnel after?
    
2. What moniker did relief pitcher Jeff Reardon share with an
   Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
    
3. What punctuation mark did baseball clown Max Patkin wear on
   the back of his jersey?
    
4. Whose record of 59 did Babe Ruth break when he hit 60 homers
   in one season?
    
5. What National League ballpark is known as the "Friendly
   Confines"?
    
6. What strikeout artist is nicknamed "The Big Unit"?
    
7. Who was Joe DiMaggio nearly traded to the Red Sox for in 1976?
    
8. What two Players led the National League in stolen bases every
   year from 1981 to 1990?
    
9. What left-handed baseball legend's statue in Baltimore
   mistakenly depicted him with a right-handed fielder's glove?
    
10. What does Yogi Berra advise you to do when you come to a fork
    in the road?
     
11. What was installed in front of major league baseball
    fences in 1950?
     
12. Whose number 4 was the first number ever retired in
    major league baseball, in 1939?
     
13. How many career grand slams did Frank Robinson swat besides
    the two he hit in consecutive at bats in 1970?
     
14. What baseball team retired the jerseys of Ken Boyer, Lou Brock
    and Dizzy Dean?
     
15. What sports figure, when asked if he'd seen Dr. Zhivago,
    allegedly said: "No I feel fine"?
     
16. What former L.A. Dodgers southpaw autographed yarmulkes that
    fetched $75 each in 1995?
     
17. Whose single-season strikeout record did Nolan Ryan beat
    by one?
     
18. What 1995 change to Kansas City's stadium "smells like
    baseball" to Cal Ripken?
     
19. Who did the Boston Bruins lose 18 straight playoff series to,
    form 1946 to 1987?
     
20. What did Phil Niekro throw six times in one 1979 game,
    including four in one inning, typing per game and per inning
    records?
     
21. Who was baseball's acting commissioner during the infamous
    1994-95 strike?
     
22. What Baltimore hurler claimed the only thing manager
    Earl Weaver knew about pitching was that "he couldn't hit it"?
     
23. What Yankee pitcher threw his first no-hitter the night
    before hid dad had open-heart surgery, in 1996?
     
24. What relief pitcher was nicknamed for the pet he kept while
    playing for the Pirates?
     
25. What major league baseball team started playing in Coors
    Stadium in 1995?
     
26. Who was the first Baltimore Oriole to be named American League
    MVP
    
     
27. What Atlanta Braves slugger do fans call "Crime Dog"?
     
28. What base did Babe Ruth touch for luck while running
    form the outfield between innings?
     
29. What Negro League home run king died less than three months
    before Jack?
     
30. What Cleveland Indians slugger nixed a five-year, $43-million
    contract offer in 1996?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 113 - Baseball
Trivia.

1. Ted Williams.
2. The Terminator.
3. "?".
4. Babe Ruth's.
5. Wrigley Field.
6. Randy Johnson.
7. Ted Williams.
8. Vince Coleman and Tim Raines.
9. Babe Ruth's.
10. Take it. 
11. A warning track. 
12. Lou Gerhig's. 
13. Zero. 
14. The Saint Louis Cardinals.
15. Yogi Berra.
16. Sandy Koufax.
17. Sandy Koufax's
18. Natural grass.
19. The Montreal Canadians.
20. Wild pitches. 
21. Bud Selig. 
22. Jim Palmer. 
23. Dwight Gooden.
24. "Goose" Gossage.
25. The Colorado Rockies.
26. Brooks Robinson.
27. Fred McGriff.
28. Second base.
29. Josh Gibson.
30. Albert Belle.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #112 Trivia Questions and Answers About Baseball

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.

1. What song do baseball fans break into when Mitch Williams steps
   out of the bullpen?
    
2. Whose 1996 single to center, in his first regular season
   at-bat, was the first hit by a Red Sox pitcher in 24 years?
    
3. Who was the American League base-stealing champ for nine years
   in the 1980s?
    
4. Who was the winningest active major league baseball manager
   before he retired in 1996?
    
5. Which finger on a pitcher's throwing hand controls a curve
   ball and slider?
    
6. What former Negro League player is the only pitcher in the
   Hall of Fame with a losing major league record?
    
7. Who was the only pitcher to lead the National League in
   strikeouts three times during the 1980s?
    
8. What clan consisting of Ray, Bob and Bret became the first
   three-generation family to play major league baseball?
    
9. Who set a major league record for the fewest errors by a
   shortstop, with three in 1990?
    
10. Who was the only major leaguer to play at least 500 games with
    each of four teams - Houston, Montréal, New York and Detroit?
11. 
    Which two cities have ballparks honoring Number 44 above
    the outfield fence?
     
12. Who returned from a stint in Japan to pound 51 home runs
    in 1990?
     
13. Who was the only baseballer to lay over 500 games at each of
    five different positions?
     
14. What former Yankee southpaw explained how to doctor a baseball
    in the 1977 article "Confessions of a Gunkball Artist"?
     
15. Who has the most wins in Dodgers history-- Don Drysdale, Sandy
    Koufax or Don Sutton?
     
16. Who led the National League in ERA in each of his last five
    seasons, ending in 1966?
     
17. What two Yankees were nearly traded to Milwaukee for
    pitcher Warren Spahn and slugger Hank Aaron in 1960?
     
18. What late, great Dodgers pitcher was known to fans as "Double
    D"?
     
19. What pitch does a batter face when Dwight Gooden throws his "yacker"?
     
20. What 50-year old minor league pitcher did 57,000 fans crowd
    the Orange Bowl to watch in 1956?
     
21. What Nicaraguan-born baseballer was known as "Arriba!" to
    adoring Latin fans?
     
22. What commissioner of baseball was named after a Civil
    War battle fought in Georgia?
     
23. What homer hitter is known as "The Big Hurt"?
     
24. Who was the last graduate of the Negro Leagues to retire from
    major league baseball?
     
25. What 1995 World Series teams were both picketed by the
    American Indian Movement?
     
26. How many home run titles did Roger Maris win?
     
27. What catcher replaced Mel Allen as TV announcer for the
    Yankees in 1964?
     
28. What two players are tied for second behind Ty Cobb in total
    career runs?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 112 - Baseball
Trivia

Major league baseball trivia questions and
answers.

1. Wild Thing
2. Roger Clemens.
3. Rickey Henderson
4. Tommy Lasorda.
5. The middle.
6. Satchel Page
7. Steve Carlton
8. The Boone Family.
9. Cal Ripkin Jr.
10. Rusty Staub 
11. Atlanta and Milwaukee.
12. Cecil Fielder 
13. Pete Rose. 
14. Whitey Ford
15. Don Sutton.
16. Sandy Koufax.
17. Whity Ford and Mickey Mantle.
18. Don Drysdale.
19. A curve ball.
20. Satchel Page. 
21. Roberto Clemente.
22. Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
23. Frank Thomas. 
24. Hank Aaron.
25. The Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians. 
26. One 
27. Joe Garagiola.
28. Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #111 Trivia Questions and Answers About the Olympics

Olympics trivia questions and answers.

1. What year was the first summer Olympiad televised live?
    
2. What procedure did the IOC begin after a Danish cyclist died
   during the 1960 Summer Olympics?
    
3. How many minutes does an Olympic basketball game last?
    
4. What Olympic event is about to start when a jury director
   orders, "En garde"?
    
5. What track favorite donned golden shoes to capture gold in
   both 200- and 400-meter 1996 Olympic sprints?
    
6. What country's Olympic basketball team does Chicago Bulls star
   Toni Kukoc play for?
    
7. What part of their vehicle's equipment are bobsledders only
   allowed to use after crossing the finish line?
    
8. Who was unable to run the 200-meter final at the 1992 Olympics
   due to food poisoning?
    
9. How many times did the Summer Olympics feature the sport
   of Live Pigeon Shooting?
    
10. How many continents must a sport be played on before the IOC
    will consider making it an Olympic event for men?
     
11. What athlete was protected by seven security guards at
    the 1994 Winter Olympics?
     
12. What country competed alone in Athens' 1996 Olympic
    100-meter Freestyle for Sailors?
     
13. What Olympic athlete dated the son of Romanian dictator
    Nicolae Ceausescu?
     
14. What walking sport should be added to the Olympics, according
    to 42 percent of U.S. sports editors, sportscasters and columnists?
     
15. What Olympic event has runners wearing shoes with perforations
    to allow for drainage?
     
16. How many seconds are there on an Olympic basketball shot
    clock?
     
17. What Olympic field event consists of a crouch, shift,
    thrust, and release?
     
18. What general stormed into the boxing ring at the 1928 Olympics
    to protest judges ruling for a South African over an American?
     
19. What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 1969 to
    1973, but never an Olympic gold medal?
     
20. What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold
    in basketball, soccer and softball?
     
21. What 1996 Olympic event had two U.S. squads playing each other
    for the gold medal?
     
22. What U.S. Olympic city did the torch relay to Atlanta
    start in?
     
23. What Olympic event's winner is considered to be the
    "world's greatest athlete"?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 111

1. 1960.
2. Drug testing..
3. Forty.
4. Fencing.
5. Michael Johnson.
6. Croatia's.
7. Brakes.
8. Michael Johnson.
9. Once.
10. Four. 
11. Nancy Kerrigan. 
12. Greece. 
13. Nadia Comaneci. 
14. Golf.
15. Steeplechase.
16. Thirty.
17. The shot put.
18. Douglas MacArthur.
19. Janet Lynn
20. The U.S.
21. Beach volleyball. 
22. Los Angeles. 
23. The decathlon's. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #110 - National League, Home Runs, Lou Gehrig, Yankees, Innings, Fields, Batting, Hitting and more!

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.

1. Whose ceremonial pitch to open the 1940 baseball season smashed
   into the camera lens of a Washington Post photographer?
    
2. Who homered in his third straight game on the day he beat Lou
   Gehrig's record for consecutive games?
    
3. What two Yankees did 17-year-old female Jackie Mitchell strike
   out successively in 1931?
    
4. What slow-footed catcher admitted he used to knock his hat off
   while running to first base to make it appear he was "really
   moving"?
    
5. What pitcher was taken out of his major league debut in the
   seventh inning for a pinch hitter named Duffy Lewis, in 1914?
    
6. What did Chris Sabo shower the field with when his bat broke
   in a July 31,1996 game?
    
7. Whose record did Reggie Jackson tie when he spanked three home
   runs in a World Series game?
    
8. What major league baseball team is sometimes dubbed "The
   Fish"?
    
9. What American League baseball team plays home games in a
   stadium nicknamed " the Big A"?
    
10. What National Leaguer went longest between MVP seasons,
    winning in 1954 and 1965?
     
11. How many intentional walks did Roger Maris, batting
    ahead of  Micky Mantle, get in his 61 home run season in 1961?
     
12. What Cy Young Award winner continued to hurl for a
    prison team called the Detroit Dennys?
     
13. What catcher, asked during spring training what his hat size
    was, answered: "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet"?
     
14. Who was the National League home run king in half the seeasons
    of the 1980's?
     
15. What Phillies slugger, upon seeing Lake Michigan for the firs
    time, asked: "What ocean is that"?
     
16. What Yankees manager explained: "In a short series good
    itching will always beat good hitting -- and vice versa"?
     
17. Who's major league baseball's career leader in total
    bases?
     
18. Who signed with the Yankees in 1980 for over twice the amount
    George Steinbrenner paid for the franchise?
     
19. What high-living Yankee slugger's roommate noted: "I don't
    room with him. I room with his suitcase"?
     
20. What slugger received 900,000 letters in the first six months
    of 1974?
     
21. What major league baseball team had an Internet home page in
    English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin in 1996?
     
22. What baseball team has lost the World Series a record 12
    times?
     
23. Who has the best won-lost percentage of any pitcher with
    15 or more wins against the New York Yankees?
     
24. Who was pitching when pitcher Joe Niekro smacked his only
    homer, in 1976?
     
25. What 60 year old gave up one hit in three innings of work
    against the Red Sox in 1965?
     
26. What pitcher set a record in 1977 for most walks in a post
    World War II season, with 201?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 110 - 
Baseball

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt's.
2. Cal Ripken Jr.
3. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
4. Bob Uecker.
5. Babe Ruth.
6. Cork.
7. Babe Ruth's.
8. The Florida Marlins.
9. The California Angels.
10. Willie Mays. 
11. Zero. 
12. Denny McLain. 
13. Yogi Berra.
14. Mike Schmidt.
15. John Kruk
16. Casey Stengel.
17. Hank Aaron.
18. Dave Winfield.
19. Babe Ruth's.
20. Hank Aaron. 
21. The Los Angeles Dodgers. 
22. The Dodgers. 
23. Babe Ruth. 
24. Phil Niekro.
25. Satchel Paige. 
26. Nolan Ryan. 

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #109 - Major League Baseball Trivia

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.

1. What hide was first used to cover baseballs in 1975?
    
2. What baseball announcer said Pope Paul VI's death "puts a
   damper on even a Yankees win"?
    
3. What country's first U.S. major league baseball player was
   Chan-Ho Park?
    
4. Which two cities have the oldest stadiums in major league
   baseball?
    
5. What baseball team's games are announced on TV by Skip Carey?
    
6. What shortstop holds the major league records for games
   played, assists and double plays?
    
7. What pitcher's 1.12 ERA in 1968 is the lowest in the majors in
   post-World War II play?
    
8. Who was the last American League baseballer to win the Triple
   Crown, in 1967?
    
9. What Pittsburgh Pirate had exactly 3,000 career hits
   before dying in a plane crash?
    
10. What's the LCS to a baseball pennant winner?
     
11. What was pitcher Dock Ellis the first major leaguer to
    wear in his on the field?
     
12. How many seasons did Lou Gehrig play every inning of
    every game?
     
13. What major league baseball team has fans dubbed "Cheese
    Heads"?
     
14. What ballpark was Pete Rose playing in when he broke Ty Cobb's
    career hits record?
     
15. What major league baseball team did the Walt Disney Company
    assume operational control of in 1996?
     
16. How many seasons saw Hank Aaron blast 50 or more homers?
     
17. Who holds the record for most innings pitched in a major
    league season?
     
18. What legendary manager explained: "You have to have a catcher. 
    If you don't the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen"?
     
19. What explosive base-stealer took a $2.75 million pay cut to
    play for the Kansas City Royals, in 1995?
     
20. What major league baseball team was forced to endure a 20-day
    road trip in 1996?
     
21. What Beantowner is second only to Pete Rose in total major
    league baseball games played?
     
22. What's the most home runs hit by one player in a single
    major league game?
     
23. What establishments were 90 percent of the viewers
    watching the first televised World Series from?
     
24. What did Babe Ruth, Rogers, Hornsby, Ted Williams and Willie
    Mays all do in their first major league at-bats?
     
25. What former Giants star is the godfather of Barry Bonds?
     
26. What governor was on hand at home plate to greet Hank Aaron
    when he broke Babes Ruth's home run record?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 109 - Professional Baseball

1. Cowhide
2. Phil Rizzuto
3. South Korea's
4. Boston and Detroit
5. The Atlanta Braves.
6. Ozzie Smith
7. Bob Gibson's.
8. Car Yastrzemski.
9. Roberto Clemente.
10. League Championship Series.
11. Curlers.
12. One
13. The Milwaukee Brewers.
14. Riverfront Stadium.
15. The California Angels.
16. Zero.
17. Cy Young.
18. Casey Stengel
19. Vince Coleman.
20. The Atlanta Braves.
21. Carl Yastrzemski.
22. Four.
23. Bars.
24. Strike out.
25. Willie Mays.
26. Jimmy Carter.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #108 - Baseball Trivia

Major league baseball trivia questions and answers.

1. What pitcher has the most World Series victories
    
2. Who had the biggest drop in batting average from one season to the next?
    
3. What were the only two pothers to win the Cy Young Award?
    
4. Who is the only pitcher with over 3,000 strikeouts and fewer than 1,000 walks?
   
   
   
    
5. Which pitcher has the most wins without ever appearing in a World Series?
    
6. Who is the only pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young and MVP?
    
7. Who had the most hits in the 1990's?
    
8. Who is the only pitcher to win the MVP two years in a row?
    
9. Who is the only pitcher to win six Cy Young Awards?
    
10. What pitcher has won the ERA title the most times?
     
11. Who has allowed the most walks in their career?
     
12. Who has the most career home runs without ever being in a World Series?
     
13. What father-and-son combo has the most career home runs?
     
14. Who was the first National Leaguer to hit 50 home runs in two consecutive seasons?
     
15. What was Babe Ruth's lifetime batting average?
     
16. Who is the only person to win the batting title in his first two full major league seasons?
     
17. Who is the only pitcher to save three consecutive All Star games?
     
18. Who hit into the most double plays in their career?

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 108 - Professional Baseball

1. Whitey Ford with 10
2. Norm Cash of the Tigers batted .361 in 1961 and .243 the next year.
3. Jim Perry with the Twins, in 1970 and Gaylord Perry with the Indians in 1972.
4. Ferguson Jenkins
5. Phil Niekro with 318 wins.
6. Don Newcombe of the Dodgers
7. Mark Grace of the Cubs
8. Hal Newhouser of the Tigers in 1944-45
9. Roger Clemens
10. Lefty Grove with 9
11. Nolan Ryan with 2,795.
12. Ernie Banks, with 512 Home runs.
13. Bobby and Barry Bonds, with 332 for Bobby and 650 and counting for Barry.
14. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both did it in 1998-1999
15. .342
16. Tony Oliva of the Twins in 1964 and 1965
17. Dennis Eckersley, 1989-91
18. Hank Aaron, with 328.

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #107 - Space Science Trivia

Space science trivia questions - Scroll down for answers.

1. Which planet has the most moons?
    
2. Which planet is the hottest?
    
3. Which planet is the coldest?
    
4. How much would 100 pounds here on earth weigh on the moon?
    
5. What is Titan's atmosphere made of?
    
6. What is the diameter of the earth?
    
7. What is the diameter of the moon?
    
8. How fast is the speed of light?
    
9. How many miles is one light year?
    
10. What is a meteorite made of?
     
11. How long is an astronomical unit?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 107 - 
Space Science

1. Jupiter has the most of any planet. Saturn is second.
   
    
2. Venus is the hottest planet.
   
    
3. Pluto is the coldest planet. It has an icy temperature of -400 F.
   
    
4. If you weighed 100 pounds on earth, you would weigh only about 16
   pounds on the moon.
   
    
5. The atmosphere of Titan is made mostly of Nitrogen (80-90%), just like the Earth's atmosphere!
   
    
6. The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
   
    
7. The diameter of the Moon is 3,474 kilometers.
   
    
8. In metric units, the speed of light is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (or 1,079,252,848.8 km/h).
   Approximately 186,000 miles per second.
   
    
9. A light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles.
   
    
10. Most meteorites contain at least some iron metal (actually an alloy of iron and nickel). You can see the metal shining on a broken surface. Iron meteorites are all metal, stony iron meteorites are about half metal, half stone, and stone meteorites contain small flecks of metal.
    
     
11. The Astronomical Unit is the average distance between the Sun and
    Earth. Its value is 149,597,870 km (about 93 million miles).

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #106 - Trivia Quiz about Outer Space

Space facts trivia questions - Scroll down for answers.

1. How old is the universe?
    
2. What is a black hole?
    
3. How far is the nearest black hole?
    
4. What is a supernova?
    
5. What is a quasar?
    
6. What is a neutron star?
    
7. What is a brown dwarf?
    
8. What is a red giant?
    
9. How hot is the sun?
    
10. What is a solar flare?
     
11. What are cosmic rays?
     
12. What is the Van Allen belt?
     
13. What is the most common element found in the universe?
     
14. What is Jupiter made of?
     
15. How many moons does Jupiter have?
     
16. How long is a day on Mercury?
     
17. How many stars are there in in the big dipper?
     
18. How many stars are in the little dipper?
     
19. What is a constellation?
     
20. How many named constellations are there?
     
21. What is the big red spot on Jupiter?
     
22. Where is the element gold come from?
     
23. What is a parsec?
     

Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 106 - Outer
Space

1. In a study published  in the journal Science, a team of
   researchers says the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion
   years old.
   
    
2. A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing can
   escape, even light.
   
    
3. As of now the closest known one is thought to lie at about 1,600
   light years from Earth.
   
    
4. A supernova is a stellar explosion which produces an extremely
   bright object made of plasma that declines to invisibility over
   weeks or months.
   
    
5. The scientific consensus is that quasars are powered by material
   falling into super massive black holes in the nuclei of distant
   galaxies.
   
   
    
6. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars.
   
    
7. Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects with a mass below that
   necessary to maintain hydrogen-burning nuclear fusion reactions in
   their cores.
   
    
8. They are stars of 0.4 - 10 times the mass of the Sun which have
   exhausted their supply of hydrogen in their cores and switched to
   fusing hydrogen in a shell outside the core.
   
    
9. The core of the Sun is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The
   surface of the Sun, is only 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
   
    
10. A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when
    energy stored in twisted magnetic fields is suddenly released.
    
     
11. Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in
    outer space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the
    Earth from all directions.
    
     
12. The Van Allen Radiation Belt is a torus of energetic charged
    particles (plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
    
     
13. Hydrogen
    
     
14. Jupiter is about 90% hydrogen and 10% helium (by numbers of
    atoms, 75/25% by mass) with traces of methane, water, ammonia and
    "rock"
    
     
15. Jupiter has 63 known satellites (as of Feb 2004): the four large
    Galilean moons plus many more small ones some of which have not yet
    been named.
    
     
16. Mercury rotates three times in two of its years.
    
     
17. The Big Dipper is a group of seven bright stars, 3 which form a
    handle and 4 which form a bowl.
    
     
18. The little dipper has 6 stars.
    
     
19. A constellation is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth,
    form a pattern.
    
     
20. There are 88 constellations.
    
     
21. A:  The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm
    system. It is large enough that two Earths could fit across it.
    
     
22. Gold only comes from Super Novae.
    
     
23. The parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy, approximately
    equal to 3.261 light years.